Install hangs on Proliant 1600

[Ron Patton]

That didn't work either.

Now here is the strange part... I just installed SuSe 9.1 with no
problems so what's wrong with RedHat 9.1?

BTW - Sorry for the top posting but we use Exchange/Outlook and I don't
know of a way to change to bottom posting for a single reply.

 
Ronald J. Patton
Network Administrator
Partnership Coordinator
Advanced Legal Systems
503-227-5400
rpatton at advancedlegal.com
www.advancedlegal.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Smith [mailto:jim at steelhead.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:24 AM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: RE: Install hangs on Proliant 1600

>Ron Patton wrote:
>> No, I haven't tried that.  But I don't have any IDE drives.  Does
that
>> matter?
>
>Uhm, it still might.  Are you certain the CD isn't IDE?  Even if it
>isn't, the system still pokes at the IDE bus and that can hang it.  We
>had to set up about 30 servers in a two day period and about 50% of
them
>needed that even though they were SCSI.  I can't recall if they were
>1600s or the slightly larger beast, but the "ide=nodma" seemed to do
>the trick.  Once they were running, you could take that out of the boot
>config so DMA was available for the CD, but the installer kernel
>couldn't handle it.
>
>By the way, Ron, we prefer bottom-posting here on the list (so do most
>Linux-oriented lists).  Just a gentle nudge in the ribs.  :-)
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Sorry I'm so long in responding.  I've been working up at the cabin for
some
time.  Assuming that your machine has 256 Mb RAM (Substitute as
appropriate), try:

linux mem=exactmap mem=640K at 0 mem=255M at 1M

Remember Jerry;

Jim Smith




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